(January 22, 2015 at 1:02 pm)rasetsu Wrote: But they'll be making that breakthrough "real soon now" ...
They'd better hurry-- professor is telling us that the cosmic shit will hit the universal fan sometime in September. Or maybe December. Maybe.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould